Wing

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Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the 'witchy-beetle, forkin-robin' of dialect. His love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and The Mabinogi, gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hooke's microscopic observations. There are tributes to the poets Basho, Dafydd ap Gwilym and W. S. Graham, to fireworks, apple varieties, and hot toddies. And, in a moving elegy for a friend killed in a parachute accident, Francis shows us a vertiginous vision of a world where even the dead 'sleep on the wing'.
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Authors:
Francis, Matthew
Year Published:
2020
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9780571358618
Number of Pages:
80
Publication Date:
06/02/2020
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Place of Publication:
London
SKU:
9780571358618

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